I'll Kill You!: Threatens to kill Toritsuka with a sharpened roll of toilet paper if he ever reveals that he's a psychic to his classmates.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's normally cold and says some really mean things about his classmates in his head, especially about Nendou, but when it comes down to it, he'll help any of them, including Nendou.

Power Incontinence: Has problems controlling his own strength (see each specific power for description). It temporarily becomes an even greater problem after Nendou briefly unplugs one of his antennae.

Power Limiter: The antennae on his head keep his powers in check. He can also wear a germanium-alloy ring to shut-off his Telepathy, as shown when he went to a movie theater.

Psychic Powers: Kusuo has just about every basic psychic power in the book, plus a variety of others powers that are described as psychic in origin. A list with his known powers is in a separate folder below.

Kusuo has a big variety of powers, but every one of them is described as psychic in origin. As the series advances he keeps to reveal or discover even more of them, so the trend is that this list will just continue to grow.

Clairvoyance: By crossing his eyes, he can see and listen things happening in other places. It only works if he's visited and seen the place before in real life. A similar power, "Psychic Photography", consists of concentrating in somebody or something during one minute to draw an illustration of its present location.

Jedi Mind Trick: The "Mind Control" power. Although it serves only to convince people that something unusual is not really uncommon, it's actually Kusuo's most dangerous power. If he convinces too many people that something is not unnatural, reality will actually change and not just that particular thing will become natural, it will cause a snowball effect that will affect a series of related things. Case in point, his world physics follows gag manga tropes in first place because he was careless with this power as a child.

Laser-Guided Amnesia: The "Memory Removal" power can erase up to one minute of memories by delivering a strong impact to the head of the target. The downside is that the brain of the victim will automatically fill the blank by creating a completely new memory that can't chosen. Also, because his Super Strength, Kusuo needs use this power in combination with Restoration or the victim will die.

Master of Your Domain: Kusuo has a great control over his body functions, from sweating freely to fool others into thinking that he's putting physical effort into races and sports activities to freely dislocate, contort and reassemble each one of his joints.

Mind over Matter: Can use his mind to move people, objects, and even himself around.

Playing with Fire: Ranges from simply making objects feel hot to the touch to incinerating them to cinders.

Psychic Radar: Based in to estimate the distance and position of each mental voice. 200m range.

Psychometry: He can "see" an object's past by simply touching it; touching a person allows him to see and feel the same things they do in real time. Since it cannot be turned off, he constantly wears transparent gloves to prevent himself from seeing all of the unpleasant things associated with each object.

Shock and Awe: Can summon lightning to just about anywhere he pleases.

Spider-Sense: Has the ability to notice dangers and menaces before they happen.

Telepathy: Can't be shut off, causing him to have to constantly listen to others' thoughts within a 200 meter range. It doesn't work on Nendou for some reason, likely because he's an idiot. It can be shut-off by wearing a germanium-alloy ring.

Time Master: The "Restoration" power can turn back the time for people and objects, bringing them to a prior state. The main downside is that other people and objects nearby may be accidentally affected too. When used in people, this power doesn't affect their memories.

Voluntary Shapeshifting: With his "Transformation" power, Kusuo can change his form at will. He can turn into a woman, an animal or even aliens or inexistent beings. Completing the transformation takes two hours and has a ton of unmentioned downsides.

X-Ray Vision: This power actives itself automatically after 5 seconds whenever he gazes at anything. A largely spreaded mistranslation claims that this power doesn't to work against other telepaths, but that is wrong information * The original source just compared its Power Incontinence with Telepathy.

Strong Family Resemblance: His mother and father have the same chin, scars, and face as he does. His father looks exactly like him, hairstyle and all — it's the location of their scars what sets them apart.

Chick Magnet: He's actually decently popular with girls. Two girls tried to pick him up in the Beach Chapter and he even got a chocolate for Valentine's day. He even got Chiyo to like him during the school trip.

Cloudcuckoolander: It's unknown how much he really believes in his own fantasies... although there are times that he gets lost in them while ignoring what is going on around him (especially when he gets into trouble).

Coat Cape: Kaidou uses the jacket of his school uniform like this, since he believes he is some kind of hero.

Conspiracy Theorist: Claims that Dark Reunion is behind every bad thing that happens to him and his surroundings.

Cowardly Lion: Has the guts to protect his classmates from a runaway snake despite being utterly mortified while doing so. Even Saiki is impressed by this act of bravery.

The Dog Bites Back: In the Valentine Day's chapter, Nendou tricks Kaidou into thinking he got a chocolate from Teruhashi and then revealed its was a joke and then even mocked him over it. But Kaidou got the last laugh when a girl comes to their class to give him a chocolate, he even takes the time to smirk in Nendou's direction.

Friend to All Children: He's so friendly around children that he'll temporarily snap out of his Jet-Black Wing persona while talking to them.

Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Usually, his eyes are narrow and simplistic. Whenever he lets the Jet-Black Wing persona slip, they turn very wide and friendly.

Mr. Imagination: Has a severe case of Chuunibyou, even though he is already in his second year of high school. He's convinced that in a previous life, he was a high level soldier of Dark Reunion who went rogue after he discovered their plans for world domination.

Super Drowning Skills: He can't swim, and he won't get into the water without wearing an unnecessary number of life preservers. It's revealed that he can swim fairly well if it isn't pointed out that he's swimming.

Terrible Artist: Tries to scribble down a picture of a child's lost dog based on its description. It ends up looking horrendous.

Crush Filter: Whenever she imagines Saiki, he appears as a very idealistic, Bishounen love interest instead of the cynical, uninterested character that he is. It happens to her as well when she falls for Kaidou... sometimes, even for worse.

Joshikousei: Her school uniform is the traditional Japanese sailor fuku.

Hopeless Suitor: To Kusuo, who isn't interested in her. All of her attempts to get close to him fail because he predicts every single move she makes.

Sweet Tooth: Chiyo enjoys sweets (though it isn't compared to Kusuo's obsession to them), and she often worries if she gained weight or not (especially when she compares her own body to Teruhashi's).

Thinks Like a Romance Novel: In her introductory chapter, she constantly comes up with scenarios that put her and Saiki into over-romanticized situations. Saiki, who can see these thoughts perfectly, is not amused in the slightest.

A poor high schooler that is forced to work part-time to support her entire family. Since working as a part-timer is forbidden for students in PK Academy, Kusuo brainwashed everyone in thinking that part-time jobs (at least for PK Academy's students) was very normal (after she was found out by their school teacher, Matsuzaki), to help her in keep maintaining her family.

Big Eater: Since she is very poor, when she gets invited to eat something (or when she sees food samplings), expect her to eat a lot of that.

Cute Clumsy Girl: Although she gives her best efforts in working as a part-timer in Café Mami, she often breaks the dishes in the process.

Jack-of-All-Trades: She has several jobs to sustain her family — she works at the Café, as a morning newspaper and milk delivery girl, at the night time gas station, in a Chinese restaurant, in a diner, in a lunch shop, as a babysitter, at paper flower making, and tutoring... just to mention some of them.

Riches to Rags: Mera's family was originally filthy rich. One day, her dad's business went under and her entire family became extremely poor because of that. Not long after, Mr. Chisato abandoned them and her mom got sick. And since she has little siblings, she is the only one who has to sustain her entire family on her own.

A former delinquent who wants to live as normal as possible when he is transferred to PK Academy.

Badass Biker: He owns a motorcycle that he used to ride when he was with the Espers, his old gang. He still rides it from time to time.

Blatant Lies: As a way to hide his punk habits, Aren tells very obvious lies to cover his acts in front of everyone, and they buy them (except Kusuo, obviously). Once Kaidou finds out that Aren was a punk, he stops lying to him and his friends (Saiki and Nendou).

Face of a Thug: Although his normal self's face looks very plain, if someone pisses him off, his face becomes very scary.

Hair-Trigger Temper: He tries his best to fit in PK Academy and tries to act normal, but he gets pissed off too easily by other people.

I Just Want to Be Normal: The reason he transferred to PK Academy, although it's very hard to put his old habits behind him.

Japanese Delinquents: Aren used to be a delinquent, but his habits never die as soon as he gets provoked to use his knuckles. He is the former leader of a gang called the Espers, and his parents were also full-time delinquents (in their youth) as him, so he went through their same way of life as he grew a mullet.

New Transfer Student: He comes from an all-boys high school that was full of delinquents just like him. One day he realized that he was tired of stepping on his own (mullet) hair, so he wanted to graduate from being a punk.

Punny Name: "Kuboyasu Aren" is an anagram for the Japanese spelling of the English word "clairvoyance" ("kureaboyansu").

Rapunzel Hair: He grew a mullet ever since he was a kid. When Aren was 15 years old, it grew enough to reach the floor.

Younger Than They Look: His former look as a delinquent made him look older than he was supposed to be (15 years old). If he gets shirtless, his scarred and buff torso would agree with that statement as well.

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